happy birthday quotes for sister

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ~Wilt Chamberlain


I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. ~Mary Wortley Montagu


Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. ~Erich Heller


She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved


Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. ~Author Unknown


Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. ~William Shakespeare


Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins


If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. ~Andrew Mason


It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. ~G.K. Chesterton


Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda


Does breast milk come in chocolate? ~Author Unknown


Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe. ~Thomas Heywood, "Dialogues"


When we put our cares in His hands, He puts His peace in our hearts. ~Author Unknown


When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams. ~John Edgar Wideman


Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle - that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton


I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ~Michel de Montaigne


A #6 aluminum needle has been known to furnish an excellent emergency shearpin for an outboard motor. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman


Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick